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Two aspiring rationalists bring you mind-bending ideas from science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Whether you enjoy wide-ranging discussions or are looking to upgrade your reasoning and critical thinking skills, this podcast will satisfy your intellectual hunger and sharpen your skeptical eye.
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Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
In this episode, Jared and Gianluca throw caution to the wind and discuss their most controversial topic yet: what they think might be the best way to exercise! Specifically, they summarise the thesis behind the book ‘Body By Science’ by John Little and Doug McGuff and reveal their own workout routines. Along the way they also explore the field of evolutionary programming and genetic algorithms (hint: Gianluca just published his research paper on the topic!) and what these techniques could bring to the design of complex structures and systems!
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SHOWNOTES:
Gianluca’s research paper - “Warfarin dose estimation on multiple datasets with automated hyperparameter optimisation and a novel software framework”: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05363
Genetic programming/evolutionary algorithms: http://www.cs.montana.edu/~bwall/cs580/introduction_to_gp.pdf
Evolved wind-turbines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUNRmwoijw
Random walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stgYW6M5o4k
Monte Carlo simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0F3S-46bIQ
Robin Hanson book - “The Elephant in The Brain”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28820444-the-elephant-in-the-brain
Robin Hanson blog on signalling: http://www.overcomingbias.com/tag/signaling
Julia Galef’s podcast, “Rationally Speaking”: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
The halo effect: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Halo_effect
Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by John Little, Doug McGuff: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4642174-body-by-science
A podcast by Tim Ferriss on the so-called “1-minute workout”: https://tim.blog/2017/01/23/the-one-minute-workout-designed-by-scientists-dr-martin-gibala/
Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
Via negativa thinking (and other mental models) at Farnam Street Blog: https://fs.blog/mental-models/
Lateral shoulder raises tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5sNYB1Q6aM
Dr Rhonda Patrick on sauna use and heat: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/biohacker-summit-2016
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